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Two Fatally Shot While Responding To Brush Fire In Idaho; Marathon Senate Debate Underway On Trump Agenda Bill; Iran Could Resume Uranium Enrichment Within Months; Netanyahu Makes Hostages' Release Top Priority Of Gaza War; Idaho Sheriff: Suspect Intentionally Set Fire in Ambush; Senate Vote-a-Rama Expected to Start Monday Morning; Polls Reveal Unfavorable Views on Trump's Agenda Bill; Trump Teases Potential TikTok Buyer to Avoid U.S. Ban; Protesters Object to New Migrant Detention Site in Florida; Protecting Nigeria's Endangered Primates; California Residents Fed Up with Waymo Driverless Taxis; Messi's Inter Miami Crushed 4-0 by European Champion PSG. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired June 30, 2025 - 01:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Intentionally set the fire and ambushed those who responded and that he acted alone.

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SHERIFF BOB NORRIS, KOOTENAI COUNTY, IDAHO: So we have currently one dead shooter based on the preliminary investigation that was being conducted. Keep in mind, we had a fire that was rapidly -- it was approaching the body, so we had to scoop up that body and we had to transport that body to a different location. But based on the preliminary information, we believe that is the only shooter that was on that mountain at that time.

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CHURCH: At least two firefighters were killed, a shelter in place order has been lifted, but the wildfire on the mountain continues to burn. So let's get more now from CNN law enforcement contributor Steve Moore. He he's a former FBI supervisory special agent and joins me live from Los Angeles. Appreciate you being with us.

STEVE MOORE, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTRIBUTOR: Thanks for having me.

CHURCH: So, Steve, we just learned from that news conference last hour held by Sheriff Bob Norris in Idaho that a cell phone signal led police to the suspected shooter, who was found deceased with a firearm nearby. Now, he said it's believed he was a lone gunman and that no threat remains to the community. What do you make of all of this and what happens now?

MOORE: Well, I thought that was pretty good investigative work. What they did is they got the equipment that law enforcement has. I know the FBI has it. I don't know if Kootenai County has it. But whoever came up with it, they were able to trace all the cell phones on that mountain and found that one of them had not moved since about 3:16 in the afternoon, which was right in the middle of the aggressive law enforcement response.

So it tells me that they were thinking this through, that they were absolutely coming up with multiple plans. They were thinking outside the box, how do we locate this person? And I'm kind of impressed with how quickly they went from a sniper in a fire area to a suspect who had been neutralized. So I thought this was an amazingly good outcome.

CHURCH: Yes. And it's interesting. I mean, the investigation will get underway in the morning. We heard that from the sheriff. But how compromised might the crime scene be at this stage, given we did hear from him that the body needed to be moved from the area it was found because the fire was encroaching on that crime scene.

MOORE: Yes. Well, Rosemary, I think it would be very concerning if we thought that there was going to be a prosecution here. Certainly this person is not going to be prosecuted at this point. So I think while it would have been very valuable to have gotten things from that area, it was not a matter of if they could have. They were not going to be able to get the area set up for crime scene search, but they could get the body out, and the body was the most important piece of evidence there.

I'm also sure that they picked up anything that they could see, and if anybody even had a cell phone on them, they were photographing everything they could see. So without the prosecution, this is less concerning. And the main thing they were trying to do is just verify that there was a single shooter.

CHURCH: And tragically, Steve, the shooting deaths of two firefighters in the line of duty is a reminder of the dangers faced by these brave firefighters every single day. Another firefighter, we learned, has just come out of surgery and is in stable condition. So how might this event change the way firefighters respond to emergencies like this, given they were ambushed as they tried to arrive there and put this fire out?

MOORE: Well, firefighters already go through active shooter training, and they go through situations where they practice and learn techniques for defending themselves in these kind of situations. I first saw firefighters being shot at during the -- I didn't see it, but I witnessed the events of firefighters being shot at during the riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdicts.

And so it became a priority to give firefighters some training.

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And there was even consideration of giving some firefighters weapons to protect themselves. As far as what you do going forward, this is an aberration. This is a mental. I would assume this is a mentally ill person who was doing just something unheard of, unbelievable.

Nobody dislikes firefighters. They're there. They have no negative connotations. They're there to save your life. And for somebody to go after them is -- it's something that law enforcement people and I think the general public just can't conceive of.

CHURCH: And Steve, I did want to ask you, how surprised are you that this active shooting situation came to an end within 12 hours, really, of its starting, didn't it?

MOORE: I was impressed. And really, if you think about it, you know, they said at 2 o' clock, the firefighters called and said that they had been ambushed at -- for the next 90 minutes, an hour and a half, according to the sheriff of Kootenai County. They were responding and engaging the shooter in -- with firearms.

And that's about the time that this phone stopped moving around in the woods. And so either the responding officers or agents, whoever it was, they neutralized it or they caused this person to realize there's no way out.

And at that point, they took their lives. Either way, they had actually resolved this within 90 minutes. I'm very impressed. And the rest of the time, we was determining a safe way to clear that mountain to get to their -- to the suspect or get to the location of this cell phone, which they thought correctly, was important evidence.

CHURCH: Yes. Two firefighters killed in the line of duty, but no longer a threat to the community, which is at least a good ending, as good as we can hope. Hopeful right at this point. Steve Moore, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it.

MOORE: Thank you.

CHURCH: All right, we're also following breaking news in Washington, where senators have been debating President Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill for hours. They will then hold a marathon session of votes on amendments known as a vote-a-rama.

Republican leaders are pushing to get a final version of the bill passed by July 4th, but they want stronger support from Republican holdouts who still want changes. Late Saturday night, Senate Republicans cleared their first big hurdle in a dramatic procedural vote that squeaked through just 51 to 49.

Several Republicans have raised concerns about the bill's spending levels. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate version of the package would cost far more than the House approved bill, adding more than $3 trillion to the deficit. And for more on what comes next, here's Julia Benbrook in Washington.

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JULIA BENBROOK, CNN NEWSOURCE CORRESPONDENT: Over the weekend, Senate Republicans took a major step toward passing President Donald Trump's massive agenda package, or the so called One Big Beautiful Bill. Trump called the procedural vote a great victory, but there are still potential roadblocks ahead. Only two Republican senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of

North Carolina voted against advancing this bill. Hours later, Tillis announced that he will not seek reelection, but there were several other GOP lawmakers who have voiced concerns throughout the process.

This is a multitrillion dollar package that would lower federal taxes, it would boost spending on the military and the border, and downsize some government safety net programs including Medicaid. After this procedural vote, Democrats looked to use a delay tactic, forcing the clerks to read the full 940 page bill out loud. This took close to 16 hours. Then they started the formal debate process.

After that wraps we'll see vote-a-rama, which is an open ended series of votes on amendments, some of those focusing in on political messaging while others are more substantial. So we could see more changes.

After that, then the Senate looks at final passage. If they are able to pass it, all eyes then turn to the House where there will likely be more challenges. House Speaker Mike Johnson was able to narrowly get their version through that chamber just a little while ago, but it was a delicate balance and he has been warning that any major changes could add more complications.

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Republicans have put together a lofty goal of getting this bill to the president's desk for signature by July 4th. In Washington, Julia Benbrook, CNN.

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CHURCH: Ron Brownstein is a CNN senior political analyst and an opinion columnist for Bloomberg. He joins us now from Los Angeles. Good to have you with us.

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Hi, Rosemary.

CHURCH: So the marathon Senate debate still underway on President Donald Trump's agenda, what he calls his Big, Beautiful Bill. What do you see happening in the hours ahead and do you expect this bill to pass and be on the president's desk for signing by the Senate's self- imposed deadline of July 4th?

BROWNSTEIN: I don't know about July 4th, but the history is that presidents have traditionally passed this bill. I mean, really going back to Ronald Reagan in 1981, every president except for George H.W. Bush has essentially consolidated their first year economic agenda into what we are now calling One Big Beautiful Bill, a reconciliation package that you can pass through streamlined procedures in the Senate. And it's often been hairpin turns and a tightrope to get there. But

they have historically passed them.

Now, what makes this more complicated is that Republicans are trying to do two things at once. They're trying to cut taxes in a way that mostly benefits people at the top and at the same time they are cutting social safety net programs that mostly benefit people at the median income and below.

And they are doing them both, Rosemary, in the same bill for the first time since 1995, when Newt Gingrich tried to do this and was ultimately stopped by a veto from Bill Clinton, they found it very difficult to defend the idea of cutting programs for the middle and working class at the same time that they were funding tax cuts for the rich then.

And in the polling now, they are finding it very difficult again. In the end, I would bet they get there. But there are probably going to be a few more twists along the way.

CHURCH: And Ron, the Senate version of the president's agenda bill is estimated to raise the U.S. deficit by $3.3 trillion over a decade. That's according to the Congressional Budget Office, which also notes that the bill will cut at least $1 trillion from Medicaid and estimates that nearly 12 million Americans will go without health insurance.

Now, most polls indicate the majority of Americans don't like the president's big, beautiful bill. So what impact might all this potentially have on the 2026 midterms?

BROWNSTEIN: Yes, it's a real risk for Republicans. I mean, there are individual elements of this bill when you pull them out that do poll pretty well, ending the tax on tips and overtime, requiring, imposing a work requirement on Medicaid. But the totality of it is polling extremely poorly.

I mean, two to one negative. And really for the reasons that I said, you know, you mentioned 12 million. I'll see you 12 million people losing health care. And it's actually 17 million is the full estimate. Because one of the most important things this bill does is what it doesn't do.

At the same time that it's extending all the Trump tax cuts from 2017, the Republicans are allowing to expire at the end of this year the enhanced subsidies that were provided for people to get coverage under Obamacare during the Biden administration.

And that will knock another 5 million people off of health care, taking the total to 17 million. No bill in American history has ever revoked health care from as many people as this bill at the same time that it's giving very big tax breaks to people at the top.

I mean, the Congressional Budget Office, which is kind of the nonpartisan scorekeeper, has estimated that on average, families earning up to $76,000 a year will lose more from the spending cuts than they will gain from the tax cuts. And that is a tough sell.

So while Republicans have a few elements they hope to highlight in their campaigns, Democrats certainly see this, I think, as their central argument in trying to win back the House and maybe even the Senate in 2026. CHURCH: And Ron, GOP Senator Thom Tillis, who voted against advancing

this bill, has announced he will not stand again for reelection. What does that signal to you, given Donald Trump has said that failure to pass his bill would be the ultimate betrayal. And how is that intense pressure being felt by other Republicans?

BROWNSTEIN: Well, it tells you something that we've sort of known and becomes more clear all the time, which is that there really is no place anymore in the Republican Party for any at least federal official who is not down the line, committed to kind of bending the knee to Trump and accepting the full MAGA agenda.

I mean, just before Tillis made his announcement, Don Bacon of Omaha, one of the few Republicans in a district that was won by Kamala Harris in the House that has displayed some independence from Trump at times. He also announced that he was retiring.

So very clear signal there's no room in the party if you are not willing to be totally, you know, online in thrall to Trump.

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The question is whether there are 218 House seats and 50 Senate seats you can win that way. I mean, Trump did win 230 districts this time, so. But last time he only won 202. I mean, it's not clear that you can win as a full MAGA acolyte in enough seats to get to 218 House seats. And in the Senate, it's probably right at a 50-50 kind of split whether you can win that way or not.

But I think the message is very clear that Trump's thumbprint on the, you know, handprint on the party is only growing more intense.

CHURCH: Well, watch to see where all of this goes. Ron Brownstein, many thanks for joining us. Appreciate your analysis.

BROWNSTEIN: Thanks for having me.

CHURCH: And our breaking news coverage will continue as senators prepare for the vote-a-rama in just a few hours from now. Please stay with us.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Despite the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, the head of the U.N. Nuclear watchdog agency says Iran could begin enriching uranium again in a matter of months. He says the strikes fell short of destroying Tehran's nuclear program. That contradicts President Trump's claim that the U.S. set back Iran's nuclear ambitions by decades.

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RAFAEL GROSSI, IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL: Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there. It is clear that there has been severe damage, but it's not total damage, first of all. And secondly, Iran has the capacities there, industrial and technological capacities. So if they so wish, they will be able to start doing this again.

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CHURCH: Mr. Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. strikes completely and totally obliterated Tehran's nuclear program.

Following its attacks on Iranian targets, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says rescuing the hostages held by Hamas is now the country's primary goal. The comments came during a visit to a Shin Bet facility in southern Israel, where he praised the Security Agency for role in removing what he called two lethal threats to Israel's existence.

The Hostage Families Forum released a statement reacting to Netanyahu saying, welcome the fact that after 20 months the return of the abductees has been set as a priority by the Prime Minister. Our Nic Robertson sat down with Liran Berman, whose twin brothers were kidnapped from their homes in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. They're still in captivity. Nic file this report from Jerusalem.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is talking about new opportunities following the conflict with Iran, talking about putting hostages as a priority, getting them released from Gaza.

I sat down and spoke with Liran Berman, brother of twins Zivi and Gali Berman who were being held. And I asked him about the possibilities he saw and what President Trump and what press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu need to do to get his brothers freed.

It's been more than 630 days trying to get your twin brothers freed. Why is this the moment when it could happen?

LIRAN BERMAN, BROTHER OF MEN ABDUCTED IN OCTOBER 7 ATTACK ON ISRAEL: We just ended a 12 days war there with a lot of accomplishment for Israel.

ROBERTSON: Is it a victory for Israel do you think?

BERMAN: The victory a victory is when the hostages will come back.

ROBERTSON: How does having a good result against Iran help get your brothers out?

BERMAN: It isolates Hamas even more.

ROBERTSON: President Trump said he thought a deal could be done within a week. Are you as confident as him?

BERMAN: We are hearing a lot of optimism from the administration in the US. Right now it's not happened yet. I wish I could be as optimistic as President Trump. I'm taking his optimism because I need it. I need it for my brothers. I need it for myself to keep going. But until the deal is signed and still realistic.

ROBERTSON: What is it that President Trump needs to say to Prime Minister Netanyahu or do to convince him to make this comprehensive all the hostages end of war deal?

BERMAN: The only thing that we didn't try is to end the war, to get hostages. Not to end the war, just to end the war. We need the hostages. And to get all of 50 now is to end the war. This is what Hamas has said. And we didn't try this by now. We had a ceasefire with Lebanon. We have a ceasefire now with Iran. Why is Gaza still a problem?

ROBERTSON: Why?

BERMAN: I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know. I just want my two little brothers back.

ROBERTSON: You had proof of life earlier this year.

BERMAN: We have eyewitness saw them by February.

ROBERTSON: And now you're saying that they're separated in the tunnels.

BERMAN: This is the longest they've been separated. They have a bond. We do believe that they can sense each other and send each other's strengths inside the tunnels. I wish they were together, but I know them. I know that they are strong.

ROBERTSON: What's that missing link that hasn't been there, that President Trump can help your prime minister achieve?

BERMAN: I think it's a promise that if something will happen inside Gaza, then Israel will have permission to go back if Hamas will hold two more hostages, if Hamas will start building itself again. This is what we have in Lebanon and this is what we have in Iran. The hostages need to get out by any means necessary. Right now, 20 of them presume to be alive, including my Turzil brothers. They have limited time. Limited time.

ROBERTSON: And if the deal, the one that's been on the table for just releasing 10 living hostages, if that happens and your brothers are not among those 10.

BERMAN: It's a terrible situation. It is a terrible situation. It's not an ideal deal by any means, and everyone knows it.

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ROBERTSON: Do you want it taken off the table?

BERMAN: No, because this is what we have right now.

ROBERTSON: And what's the pressure that President Trump can put on Hamas to get them to make a final compromise?

BERMAN: I wish him --

ROBERTSON: he's already -- Edan Alexander when he wanted to, he got the last American hostage free.

BERMAN: They left a live American hostage.

ROBERTSON: So he can do that?, the U.S. President?

BERMAN: I don't know. I wish it was a magic wand who can like wave it. And Hamas would say take them. It needs to happen through the Qataris and the Egyptians, both of them. The mediators need to pressure the leadership in Doha.

ROBERTSON: If you could speak to your brothers now. What's your message to your brothers Gali and Zivi?

BERMAN: Gali, Zivi, stay strong. Everyone is safe at home and everyone is fighting for your release. And we are doing whatever we can to bring you back. And you will be here and you will hug our father and my mother will hug you and you will have a future. You will have kids. And I will be an uncle for their kids.

ROBERTSON: Well, the government has also announced that it now sees no security threat around some areas of the Gaza envelope, including the kibbutz Kfar Aza where Gali and Zivi were taken from. And I asked Liran about the possibility of families going back then he told me, look, we don't think that the security situation has changed. We don't feel that it's safe to go back yet. Certainly told me there were concerns in his family about any movement.

And it seems the government still has a lot to do to convince those families from those kibbutz, particularly those who have still got hostages being held there in Gaza, that is actually safe to go back. Nic Roberson, CNN, Jerusalem.

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CHURCH: Still ahead, the very latest on the shooting in Idaho where two firefighters were killed in what police are calling an ambush. Back in just a moment.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. And I'm Rosemary Church.

I want to update you on our top story now.

Police believe there was only one shooter in the attack on firefighters in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Sheriff's officials believe the body of the suspect was found near the scene on Canfield Mountain with a rifle nearby. On Sunday afternoon, firefighters were shot while responding to a brush fire in a popular park. Police believe the fire was set intentionally as an ambush.

The International Association of Firefighters says two of its members were killed. Police say a third firefighter who was shot is fighting for his life but is in stable condition after surgery.

Authorities say a shelter in place order has been lifted, but a wildfire is still active on that mountain.

In the coming hours, the U.S. Senate is expected to enter into a marathon voting session or a vote-a-rama before a final vote on President Trump's domestic agenda bill. It comes after a weekend of discussions and debate over the package of tax cuts and spending priorities.

That session is scheduled to start at 9:00 this morning in Washington. President Trump declared it was a great victory after key Senate Republicans shifted their votes to advance the bill to the debate stage. He says they are patriots who truly love our country.

Well, new polls show how Americans feel about the bill, and the numbers are not in the president's favor.

Harry Enten breaks down the latest data on President Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill.

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HARRY ENTEN, CNN SENIOR DATA ANALYST: As the Senate debates the one Big, Beautiful Bill, how do the American people feel about it? Well, data from across the month of June shows that the adjectives that the American people would use to describe it are awful, horrible, and to quote Charles Barkley, "terrible, terrible, terrible".

What are we talking about here? Well, let's take a look at the net favorable ratings of the Big, Beautiful Bill. I don't just got one poll for you up here on the screen. I got five, and they all tell the same story.

"Washington Post" -- look at that, the net favorable rating minus 19 points -- 19 points underwater. How about Pew? 20 points underwater. How about Fox News 21 points underwater. How about Quinnipiac? Minus 26 points on the net favorable rating. Holy cow. How about KFF? The worst of the bunch at minus 29 points.

But no matter how you look at it, it's terrible. From minus 19 points to minus 29 points on the net favorability scale. This isn't one Big, Beautiful Bill as the American people are concerned it's one big, bad bill.

Now, here's the question. Obviously, during the month of June, the bill has been debated. The American people have learned more about it. Has that made them change their mind for the better? Take a look here. The change in the net favorability rating of the Big, Beautiful Bill, according to Quinnipiac University. Well, look, in early June, it was minus 26 points. How about in late June, the same minus 26 points.

The American people thought that the bill was awful in early June. The same numbers say that it is awful in late June, at least on the net favorability scale.

Now, the question is why? Why do the American people not like this bill? Why is it one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation that I can recall that's on the cusp of potentially going in and becoming law?

Well, it all goes down to the argument. Does the one Big, Beautiful Bill actually help your family? How do the American people feel about this?

Will Trump's policies and your family help the Big, Beautiful Bill, just 23 percent of Americans say that the Big, Beautiful Bill actually helps their family. Compare that percentage to the hurt -- 49 percent.

And this is so much different as how the American people viewed Trump's first term and the policies there, and why he was elected back in November.

Look at this. Trump's first term agenda -- 44 percent of Americans thought that his first term agenda helped their family, compared to 31 percent who said hurt. So a much, considerably larger proportion of the American public said his first term agenda helped than hurt their family, which is the exact opposite of how they feel about the Big, Beautiful Bill with a clear plurality, 26 points more of the American public saying it hurts than helps their family.

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ENTEN: And that, my dear friends, is why this bill is just so unpopular at this point. Historically unpopular. As I said at the beginning, the American people see it as awful, horrible and "terrible, terrible, terrible" to quote Charles Barkley.

Back to you.

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CHURCH: Well, President Trump says he has found a potential buyer for TikTok, but he's not revealing any names just yet. It comes months after Congress signed a law requiring Bytedance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, to sell off the social media app or face a ban in the U.S.

Speaking with Fox News, the president said he will reveal who the buyer is soon.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have A buyer for TikTok, by the way. I think I'll need probably China approval. I think president xi will probably do it, you know.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who's buying?

TRUMP: I'll tell you in about two weeks.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A big technology company there.

TRUMP: Very, very wealthy people. It's a group of very wealthy people.

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CHURCH: President Trump has so far signed three orders delaying the enforcement of the TikTok ban in the U.S. The only outage was for about 14 hours back in January.

Protesters in Florida are pushing back against the U.S. government's plans for a new migrant detention facility. Its nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz". It's being built near a remote airfield just six miles north of the Everglades National Park, and is set to open on Tuesday.

CNN's Rafael Romo explains why the government has chosen a controversial spot for a controversial facility.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Florida state officials say the migrant detention facility will be, in their words, efficient and low cost because Mother Nature will provide much of the security. That suggests they're counting on alligators and pythons, not to mention the oppressive heat to deter the migrants who would be held there from trying to escape.

And it seems the federal government agrees. The Department of Homeland Security published an A.I. photo on X that shows several alligators wearing ICE hats outside of what appears to be a jail, a post considered deeply offensive by immigrant rights groups and others.

We reached out to DHS, and they acknowledged the post is legitimate. The first detainees are reportedly said to arrive at the facility as early as Tuesday, according to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Florida attorney general James Othmer calls it Alligator Alcatraz and says the overall site is 39 square miles, and it would hold more than a thousand people. It's being erected on a little used airstrip in the everglades, and it would cost $450 million a year to run, according to a DHS official. The state can request reimbursement for costs from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

A crowd of protesters descended on the site this weekend to say no to the detention facility, arguing that it not only violates the rights of immigrants, but also endangers wildlife.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What we see here is an effort to say that the everglades are not a backdrop for political theater.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They're using sacred land for such a sinister and vile goal, end goal, which is not ok, right, in any sense of the word. And on top of that, it's just the environmental impact that this will have as well.

ROMO: In spite of these objections, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last week floated the idea of building another immigration detention center in his state as part of Florida's aggressive push to support the federal government's crackdown on illegal immigration.

The second proposed site is located at a Florida National Guard training center known as Camp Blanding, about 30 miles southwest of Jacksonville.

Rafael Romo, CNN -- Atlanta.

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CHURCH: And CNN NEWSROOM will return after a short break. Stay with us.

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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone.

Well, Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation, known more for its vibrant culture and crude oil production than for its wildlife. But it's also home to some of the continent's iconic species.

Today, on "Call to Earth", we meet a woman who's working to protect some of the country's most threatened primate populations and their degrading forest habitats.

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RACHEL IKEMEN, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, SW NIGER DELTA FOREST PROJECT: All right, so we are ready for today's task, yes.

ZAIN ASHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Conservationist Rachel Ikemen has spent years fighting to preserve Nigeria's forests and the animals that rely on them.

IKEMEN: By far, the most significant threat to wildlife, especially in Nigeria, is habitat loss, whether from logging, farming, all forms of deforestation or habitat degradation.

ASHER: According to the World Economic Forum, the west African nation has lost nearly half of its primary forest cover in just two decades.

As the founder and director of the Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project, Ikemen is committed to reversing that trend with programs that include a full suite of conservation initiatives from training anti-poaching units to education, outreach and research. The organization is specifically focused on restoring forests that are

havens for two imperiled African primates.

IKEMEN: The two species we are working on are rare. They are not found anywhere else in the world, and they are considered highly, highly vulnerable to extinction.

ASHER: In the heart of the Niger delta, a region known for conflict and home to a critically endangered species of red colobus monkey. Ikemen's work has been recognized for helping their numbers rebound.

Further inland in southwest Nigeria's Ekiti state, she's focused on protecting one of the continent's most iconic creatures and humans closest genetic relative. The Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee is the most endangered of the primate's four known subspecies. Here in the east state conservation area, which was established in 2021 and continues to be managed by the Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project.

IKEMEN: This is our sign here, just in a way to mark that you're about to enter a conservation area. Their camera traps captured the first images of the genetically-distinct chimp whose habitat is under constant threat.

IKEMEN: For example, in eastern forest conservation area, that it has been gazetted (ph) by the state government as a protected site. You see their pressures from different quarters to log in this forest to even farm.

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IKEMEN: Some farmers, of course, don't care about the wood, they care about what they want to grow. So they will set fires under trees themselves just to kill the tree.

ASHER: But the team's relentless work to prove these forests are full of life and therefore important to protect, is paying off.

IKEMEN: One primary misconception about Nigeria is that there are no wildlife here. Imagine that and it makes me very happy to have these evidences we are getting now from our camera trap footage to show voila -- there you are.

ASHER: To date, the organization has spearheaded the creation of four protected areas with more in the works.

IKEMEN: I think we should start getting the team set up where the gaps are. We should be able to fill in those gaps.

ASHER: For Rachel Ikemen, preserving Nigerian forests and saving its iconic wildlife is priority number one. An ongoing battle she knows they won't win if they go it alone.

IKEMEN: It sounds like a broken record when you say communities are important to forests. One of the greatest achievements of Southwest Niger Delta Forest Project is that we have raised a lot of conservation champions. So every single one of the team members are in their own right conservation leaders. So it's not just a job for them anymore. They have now seen it as a calling.

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CHURCH: Let us know what you're doing to answer the call with the #Call to Earth.

Back in a moment.

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CHURCH: Welcome back.

It is A.I. versus humans in one California neighborhood. Some in Santa Monica say they're fed up with noise from Waymo driverless taxis.

They're now operating in at least five major cities across the U.S., with more locations expected soon. And while they are popular with riders, others say the beeping sound they make when backing up is a nuisance.

CNN's Nick Watt has more.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We just want the Waymos to stop beeping at night. Hold on, sorry, sir. We have to -- oh, oh -- careful, careful, is there a person inside of it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's no human inside of it. Ok.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Excellent, ok.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're on. We're on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're never interfering with the human driver.

NICK WATT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just with the robots.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we've explained that to the police as well.

WATT: Santa Monica residents, faces hidden from security cameras, disabling self-driving Waymo robot taxis. They call it stacking.

Man versus machine.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Man versus machine, yes.

WATT: It's getting near midnight.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We'll try lasering the next one. WATT: They object to the robots' flashing lights, backup beeps and the general hubbub keeping humans awake at night and disturbing their days.

WAYMO, ROBO-CAR: Please step back.

WATT: Stacker One, the O.G. asked us not to use his real name.

STACKER ONE: I for one, would walk down the center of the alley.

You've got to stop honking. Stop honking -- it's the middle of the night.

WATT: Waymo tried to get a restraining order against you to stop you doing this.

STACKER ONE: True.

WATT: As we wrapped up talking to Stacker One.

STACKER ONE: Nick, she's citing them.

WATT: Robot gridlock.

Citing them for what?

Parking tickets. If there was a human behind the wheel, she couldn't.

Parked in the alley without a driver. That's the issue.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, sir.

WATT: Under current California law, a robot can get a parking ticket, but not a traffic ticket. Lawmakers still working on that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the solution is to treat these cars like they're cars. So you can watch it even now, it didn't stop at all at the stop sign. Its rolling -- it's rolled all the way, it stopped right at the edge.

WATT: This is a very visible example of a massive issue. We haven't figured out how we live alongside and legislate A.I.

HAMID EKBIA, DIRECTOR, AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS POLICY INSTITUTE: The public should be involved in conversations before the fact, before these technologies are let loose. You know, all A.I. technology should go through this process.

WATT: Professor Ekbia heads the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute.

It's physical, we can see it. We can hear it. We can stand in front of it. But that's not always going to be the case.

EKBIA: No, no. Trust me, no. So, we better do something before it's too late.

NANCY TAYLOR, RESIDENT: It's like a light show in Las Vegas, so you have to have blackout curtains.

WATT: Did the city or Waymo or anybody speak to the humans who live around here?

TAYLOR: No. And I asked if I could come to their city council meeting to ask questions.

WATT: Right.

TAYLOR: And they said, oh, they have a waiver. There's not going to be a city council meeting.

WATT: Waymo wouldn't talk to us on camera. "We strive to be good neighbors," a spokesperson told me via e-mail. "They are working with the city as we explore and implement mitigations that address neighbors' concerns."

They have limited the human workers' noise, planted some bamboo hoping to muffle, stopped using one of the lots most nights and limited the robots' speed in the alleys. But they're still beeping.

TAYLOR: You know, they've not done enough. In fact, last night it was worse.

WATT: Santa Monica officials say this isn't loud enough to violate the city's basic noise ordinance.

STACKER ONE: I told them that this is a violation of the Santa Monica noise ordinance prohibiting business support operations of any decibel level between 11:00 pm and 6:00 am. And there's no mention of an exception that says if you get a robot to yell for you, you're allowed to do that at night.

WATT: What do you think the rest of us can learn from your experience as to how we should all progress through this age of A.I. as humans and robots are going to be coexisting?

GRAYSON SMALL, RESIDENT: Doing things that we've never been able to do in the past is great. But if it comes at the expense of humanity and human happiness and joy and being able to live life and not being inconvenienced constantly, what's the point?

WATT: Nick Watt, CNN -- Santa Monica, California.

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CHURCH: The magic ran out for Messi and Inter Miami at the Club World Cup on Sunday. The Argentine superstar carried his major league soccer team on an improbable run to the knockout round of the tournament, but they were soundly defeated four-nil by European champions PSG.

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CHURCH: CNN's Patrick Snell was there.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: This really was all too easy for the reigning French and European champions against the only American side left in the tournament.

Messi, against the team he once graced. A day though, he'll want to forget very quickly indeed. No matter what though, fans will always flock to see him.

Among the 65,000 plus in attendance, supporters, both young and old. The message? I love you Messi. The Argentine superstar inspired a rousing comeback win against Porto at this very stadium earlier this month. But on Sunday there would be no repeat performance.

This was an absolute stroll in the park for the Parisians, with chants of Messi, Messi reverberating around Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Parisians ahead after just six minutes of play through their young and unmarked Portuguese Joao Neves.

With the gulf in class now evident, PSG doubled their advantage through Neves again. An exquisite team move, finished off in style.

Thomas Aviles' own goal made matters worse for Miami. The look of utter dejection on Messi's face all too apparent.

And it was four-nil even before half time. Achraf Hakimi couldn't miss from close range and he didn't. A resounding four-nil scoreline in favor of PSG as Messi and Miami head out of the tournament.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know, Messi is Messi, so -- but great. It was good seeing him. I felt like Jesus was in the room.

No, he's amazing. He's an amazing player. So we're big Messi fans.

SNELL: Will this PSG side -- will they win the tournament?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, in my opinion I think that they're going to take it all. They are the best team in Europe. They're the champions of Europe right now.

So that tells you everywhere. That tells you basically how good they are.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They are the champions league winner. They are -- I think they are the team who most likely will win this tournament.

SNELL: The European champions have well and truly flexed their muscles here in dispatching Messi's Inter Miami, and they are going to take some stopping in their quest to become the first ever winners of the newly revamped FIFA Club World Cup.

Patrick Snell, CNN -- outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

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CHURCH: Thanks for your company this hour.

I'm Rosemary Church. I will be back with more CNN NEWSROOM after a short break. Do stay with us.

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